Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-11-05
AFFAIRS.
Star Waning-Jackson's
Job-Black and Villas,

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Job-Black and Villas.
Special Correspondence of the 1xrEn.ocEAN.
WASHINGTON, Nov. There IS moth
ing, absolutely nothing, in the rumor
that Senator Allison. chairman of the
committee OH appropriations of the
senate, meet here in conference with
Sam Randall and agree upon q
bill for the purpose of facilitating the
work of congress. Randall is a falling
star. His day determination Of his party
is about over. Allison does not confer
with Democrats on matters of public
policy, but with Republicans. There is
not and there cannot be any truth in
such a umor If Randall wants to ia
~cilitate the business Of appropriations,
he can, with the assistance Of other DEM
ocrats of the house, hasten the prepare:
ton and introduction Of appropriation
bills. Heretofore they have delayed that
work until the last moment, and OBJ
structed the workings of the congress by
bringing in their bills at inopportune
times, solely for the purpose Of obstruct-
ing legislation. If Mr.. Randall wants to
do better, let him do better, and he will
find the Republican senate always ready
to meet him half way, and a little more
than halfway.
great deal of pride in the recent speech
of one Of their number, Gen. Henry
Jackson, at Macon, Georgia, where JEFF
ferson Dayis was again lauded a. a hero
and patriot. The mar Jackson 10 the
first hot headed southern confederate
who has dared to place Jefferson Davis
above Lincoln, as tho rightful president.
These bowling dervishes of the desert of
damnable treason and %ungrateful, thank
less ours gnashlng their teeth at the
heels of the soldiers who gave them life
and liberty instead of hemp and prison
little do they understand what q feast of
sorrow they are spreading for their child
rem. The future rises as a vison, and in
1t there appears another wal for the per-
petuity of the Republic. The innocent
children of those forgiven but unre-
pentant rebels, grow to manhood, inn
biping the ideas Of their unreasonable
sires, and they again threaten the life OF
the nation. In carnage dreadful, in bat
tie terrible, again their alleged cause will
go down beneath the tramp. tramp, tramp
of the iron-heeled millions of the north,
and tho fair bosom of the southern por-
ton of the nation will be q Poland, an
Ireland, a crushed, unforgiven, forever
downtrodden and blasted country. The
prattling babes who today know not nor
dream of the trials Of the past are being
educated to try again the dismember-
ment of tho Union. Their fathers are
forgiven; but they never will be. There
will be neither amnesty nor a single
vestage of pity in the hearts of the north
when the great battle of national suprem-
acy is fought out upon our own soil.
Sovereign states which are today flaunt-
ing their sovereignty in the teeth of the
sovereign Republic will be covering
for a century in tho dust, crawling on
their bellies for forgiveness. 1t must be
so. 1t will be so. Justice and right
will be forced to defend themselves, in
bloody, cruel, relenting war.
Commissioners Of Pensions John G.,
Black, has some very imprudent assis-
tants i'll the boom business. Ono ofthem,
being coward as we'll as fool, has recently
been seeking the name of a c%orrespon-
dent who has scored Black in several
western papers. This assistant, instead
Of going direct to his Suspect" has
been making inquiries concerning him
through other newspaper mon, and has
thus published the fact that the COM
missioner is exceedingly Sensitive to
newspaper criticism. The gentleman
who thus represents a chief, misrepre.
sents him, and should be relieved of all
responsible duties at an early date. The
fact is, Commissioner Black is a gentle
manly, manly fellow whom nearly all
tho newspaper men like, and they would
all prefer to see him nominated for the
vite-presidency on the Democratic tick
ct than Villas. Black was a soldier and
even the Republicans who disagree with
him and quarrel with him politically,
respect him and like him. Those who
haye never seen him nor known him,
personally, dislike some of his deeds and
sayings; but they who know him re.
spect and admire. Tho Black boom has
the good wishes Of the press; especially
as contradistinguished from tho Villa.
boom. This merely because Black was
a better soldier. Aside from his little
bit Of a soldier record, Villas is all right
He too, like Black, has had his boom
injured by asinine representatives. The
man who came to Washington with the
expectation of filling a public office o.
prominence, with aspirations for fur.
Their political preferment, must be care
full in his choice of friends. Athome, ir
private life, no friend can be considered
so near and dear as to representthe views
and aspirations Of any of us. But a pub
lie official whose every act is sc%rutenizec
and the majority of whose acts are don.
by subordinates and trusted lieutenants
such a man must choose wisely and wei
who shall serve him. Black chose a con.
fidential agent who lacks sufficient
shrewdness to cope with matters com
mittedsto his care. Villas chose an assis
tant who lacked gentility and true man
illness. Hence both aspiring gentlemer
have been injured by their sadly inefa,
Gent friends. Villas did worse thar
Black. He brought q fellow here from
the back woods; a loutish, numbering
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